McCreevy is not the answer to our recession

IT seems the well of denial about the causes of the recession in Ireland runs deep if your columnist Matt Cooper (December 12) thinks Charlie McCreevy has anything to offer.

Let’s be perfectly clear, the seeds of this recession began in 1997 when a government led by Bertie Ahern replaced a perfectly good government led by John Bruton — a government which to our cost was not in office long enough to have tackled the corruption of the political process by Fianna Fáil since 1987.

Our economy from 1997 onward was jerry-built and, like any such structure, sooner or later the whole thing falls apart.